#sorry about the mess and for spamming your dashboard

[franciskirkland-deleted]

I'm a deranged mess, and I need PAWB Finland content directly into my veins… it's what he deserves, it's what his ass was built for. And ur so right about him being the most vocal sobbing mess in bed, bestie ❤️❤️❤️ Imagine him trying to fight it back out of embarrassment, not trying to wake others in the house, but GOD how can he help it when his hubby viking pressing him against the bed, rearranging his insides, and it all just feels soooooo good. He can't help but let out the cutest desperate moans, screaming whatever freaky berwald wants to hear from him. berwald just loooves having his wife under his mercy like this

hello my beloved finland's ass anon <3 sorry i didnt answer sooner i've been resignated to the italian woman's burden of making pasta for my husband. im attic wife coded. also i've been trying to get my BP/heart rate in check all fucking day to no avail so im avoiding the hellsite. anywhooo. how are u doing bestie. did u get some rest? something to eat? i hope so. ur about to outbid me for the most insane feral unhinged hetalian pls know this. (i mean this positively btw)

this will always be ur safe space for naughty housewife finland <3 ur straight up snorting that sufin cocaine... popping that pervitin, if i may. i truly believe u could survive in a ditch in the forest for a week eating pine needles and raw birds. ur operating on a different plane of existence. i hope u dont mind that i'm compiling all of ur recent asks into one post bc i don't want to spam the dashboard/tags with the illustrious machinations of your beautiful mind. but at this point i am on my knees begging you to reveal to me your true identity bc you are psychotically horny (again, affectionate) and i envy your game. are you perchance on ADHD medicine. prescribed or otherwise. its ok u can tell me. im not a cop i used to smoke [redacted]

ok. with that being said i have... several thoughts that i would attempt to organize but 1. im so unhorny rn and 2. ur level of finland bussy devotion is lowkey beyond my level of cognitive energy - though never unappreciated. as always i enthusiastically agree with and endorse the above statements. pls message me off anon to discuss <3 pls

[maddieziegler-news]

Another rant because abuse is no joke and I’m done of people using it/making a competition out of it for the sake of their own sick argument

So I read @dancemomsshenanigans super personal post about the recent drama (Maddie calling DM “the worst” and her abuse on the show) earlier today and first of all, thank you for being brave and putting this out there, it really touched me because I experienced really similar things and I was super hurt reading some of the comments yesterday who said Maddie didn’t have it bad, others had it worst etc. and I actually had to stay away from tumblr for a bit because it brought back so many bad memories of my childhood. But I decided to be brave too and just tell you guys a bit about emotional abuse and what it did for me. I don’t really care if anyone reads this, this is for some of you, yes, to see what it can be like, but it’s mainly for me because I just need to get it off my chest because I felt hurt yesterday and still do. Warning this will be messy, bad writing and briefly talk about suicidal thoughts, sorry about that but I’m not feeling like proof reading or polishing it right now.  To give some background information: My parents got divorced when I was 7, I grew up with my dad because my mum didn’t want me, I have been having really bad seperation anxiety till then. My dad is a really strict person and he struggled a lot raising a daughter by himself with no help of my mother or any other family members. When I was 10 he taught me the rules for chess and then put me into a chess club (wanted to help me with my concentration because i was super hyperactive). It turned out I was really talented at it. In a matter of only a few months I made it on all the teams and became team captain of the under 12 team super fast and was even put on the team of the 20-year olds. Most kids who do chess seriously start at age 4, they grow up with it and all the competitions etc, I was just thrown in and it was a mess. I was really good, I immediately made it in all the competitive teams my club had and qualified for the German national championships (and you had to go through a lot of comps to qualify) in my first year competing and from there the nightmare started. I got into the national squad (not sure if you call it that in English??) for the most gifted which were super strict, you had to attend competitions every month and had to win a certain amount to stay on the team, you had to take exams and attend very hard training camps on a regular basis and I trained every single day for at least 6 hours (after like 6-8 hours of school). I also had games every weekend with the teams from the club I trained at which I had to attend on top of that, I missed sooo many weeks of school during a year, it was crazy. As you can imagine, this was a very competitive world. Trust me, the “chess world” is just as crazy as the dance world, only that you’re surrounded by far more men (a nightmare). And then the trouble started: All my teachers told my dad I was the most talented student they ever had and how I could win world-championships etc. He then got all crazy and put immense pressure on me. I already told you I suffer from seperation anxiety, I had already lost my mum, I was not gonna lose my dad too. So I trained and trained although I didn’t even like it that much at that point. I liked winning against grown men and seeing their ego suffer when beaten by a little girl, I liked the feeling of winning, I liked all the travelling at first, but I did not love it and for being a competitive chess player on this level, you had to love it or you’ll break eventually. My dad used to scream at me for losing, he was disappointed and it broke my heart, so I tried to please him and do as good as I could. But it wasn’t only my dad, I had lots of teachers and I’m telling you, they were the worst. I had some calling you names when you lost, they’d call you stupid, talentless, they said I had “no brain”, that girls couldn’t play chess and I just proved that, that I was worthless and all that jazz. But I could actually handle that, as sick as that sounds. It helped me be better because those teachers, they didn’t expect anything from me, they had called me worthless so I thought there was no way I could disappoint them more than that and that actually took the pressure off of me. I felt this way because of the way others  had treated me. Because my other teachers and my dad, they would be disappointed, they would tell me how talented I was and how I was letting them down, myself down, everyone down, how I could do so much better, how I wasn’t trying hard enough, not training enough. How I wouldn’t appreciate all they did for me (my dad travelling with me, paying the bills I never asked for that i didn’t even want it!). They would make me feel soooo bad, I could never live up to their expectations. Damn, they saw me as the next world champion, so whatever I did before I was one, it would never please them. And until you become world champion, there are years of work ahead of you and I started with only 10, not 4! I was behind, even if here in Germany I was winning almost everything, I was damn behind. So I knew whatever I did, no matter how much I won, no matter how well I did, it would never be enough. And this was only chess, my dad was just as strict for school. “School comes first”, that’s what he used to say, so when I got an A-, he would flip and demand to know why I didn’t get an A, when I got an A, why not an A+. This was my reality. I missed so much school, I had no time for homework or studying, but was still expected to bring home only A’s. One of my school teachers who helped me miss so much school by pursuading our headmaster to let me go then got invested as well. I got permission to go to a national competition for a week and then I was back he asked me my placement and I told him I got 9th (out of like 200) and the way he looked at me, so disappointed, almost accusing, it was awful. It was like, “I let you miss school for a week and you only got 9th place??” and I was already upset about that placement, I had messed up big time and I was upset and then I did now also have to deal with a teacher at school being upset, not only my dad and countless teachers. It never stopped. The expectations to always be the best, to always win, even if I was the youngest, they were too much. I once attended a comp in a town one of the teachers of the national team lived at, so I slept at his home and he took me to the comp and the first day I lost my match (which I expected, I had to play against the strongest participant in that comp and it was internation and really big) and when we got back home and his wife asked how it went he just said I blew it and messed up big time and all this in a very accusing tone, I was devastated. There was no way I was winning against that Russian who was a professional chessplayer (meaning he earned his money attending comps and winning them!) and I personally thought I had done a great job because our match lasted almost 6 hours and I really made him work for the win! But no, here I was, getting accused of not having tried at all. Later in the same comp I won in a really great match and the teacher was so proud of me and kept praising me and I felt good again and tried to please him and started to think that maybe, I really didn’t try hard enough before. Perhaps they were all right and I was not doing enough, needed to train even more. That’s then I started staying up till like 2am every day to fit in more training time. I was exhausted in school, I was tired, I was upset, I was done. I started to mess up my games. I would start strong, I would have a winning match on the board, but then I would freak out by thinking about how bad everyone would react if I lost it now and that would then make me lose my games. In a chess comp everyone can go watch your games, they can walk past your table and watch your game while you play it. My dad never did because it made me nervous and he actually accepted that, but my teachers sure did. So this one teacher would walk past, stand there, stare at the board and see that I was winning. Then he would walk away and I knew he knew I was winning and I would freak out. I started to actually mess up some games because of that. After a game I had to always analyse it with my teacher (during the game you write down all the moves), so we would sit down somewhere and play the game I just played on the board and he would comment on everything I did wrong. Now imagine having lost a winning game, it was horrible. So I had to deal with him again and his anger and him being upset and him telling me how I could do so much better. Also I didn’t even talk about the other kids who competed and had the same teachers, they knew I was the “talented one”, the one the teachers loved. Haha, yes, they sure did love me. I might have gotten most of the attention, but I absolutely hated it. It turned my friends against me (who i needed more than ever), it made me feel uncomfortable, it put me on a pedestal and set me up to fail. When they lost, it was nothing special, when I lost, it was the end of the world. Our teachers would make comments in front of everyone, everyone would look at me to see if I snapped, if I cried, if I broke, they were just waiting for it (and i can’t blame them). It was hell and I will never foget this one day, it was during winter and I just had lost a game. I was devastated, I didn’t dare to go into our hotel room and tell my dad, so I went outside. I considered ending my life there and then. I had been suicidal, but this day, that was the worst. I will never forget it. I didn’t do it, I couldn’t really think, I didn’t really have any strength, so I just walked and lay down in the snow somewhere and didn’t get up for several hours till I couldn’t feel my body anymore due to the cold. Now my boy felt like my insides, cold and numb. I don’t really remember what happened after that, but I did face my dad and his disappointment. I was 13 then, I continued to play chess competitively till I was 17.

4 more years. 4 more ears of this shit, but I grew stronger and somehow managed it all. I lost my “love” for the game (i don’t even know if i ever loved it, or just liked it), I could never find out how much I liked it on my own because from the day I walked into this club, my life had changed and everyone around me thought they could dictate it for me, had it all planned out for me. Knew what my future was going to be (travelling the world, winning comps and earning my money like that). No one asked what I wanted, no one cared. I wish I had had a mother with me, just someone at home protecting me. I don’t like Christi, I really don’t, but I always wished I had a mum who would scream at my teachers like that, who would go crazy seeing how I was treated. It can make such a huge difference. You can be treated like shit, but if you know you have someone sticking up for you, you know you have a home to go to where you will be save and loved, it makes such a differnce. That’s when I was most angry with Melissa. She used to just sit there when Kenz or Maddie were treated like shit, she didn’t do a thing. Maybe sometimes that was for the best because Abby would take out her anger with a parent on the kid, but I still wish she would have done something. I remember when Abby was crying when the moms refused to let the kids in the studio and then later Maddie was with her and Abby cried and told her how she let her down etc, it broke my heart because this reminded me so much of some situation I had to go through. The teacher putting all their own problems on the student, the parents doing nothing. Maddie didn’t have Melissa to stick up for her, she was pretty much alone. Having someone who sticks up for you is so important. You can somehow deal with the screaming, with the craziness because you know someone will have your back, will fight for you, will tell your teacher how messed up they are. I wish I had had someone like this fight for me, but I did not. I was alone, I kept all my anger and anxiety and hurt inside, didn’t tell anyone and it ate me. It destroyed me, it drove me into depression. I am 23 now and I’m still messed up. I want to please everyone, I have to be the best at everything I do, I’m scared of letting my prof down in case my exam isn’t a perfect 100% because I know he thinks highly of me and now I can’t let him down. I actually hate it when people tell me they think highly of me because this means I will disappoint them at some point, I will let them down. I prefer people not noticing me or thinking I’m not that good so I can prove them wrong. It’s easier that way for me. But at the same time I want them to notice me, I want them to see I can do it and that I’m good at what I do. It’s a vicious cicle and I can’t get out. I’m caught in it, I know what’s wrong, I know what was done to me was wrong, I know that, but it doesn’t help much. I learned to deal with it somehow. I have developed techniques to deal with my anxiety, things I always tell myself whenever it starts again. But it will be here with me forever. I don’t think I’ll ever really get over it. It’s the result of years and years of emotional abuse. I wasn’t aware that what was happening to me was wrong. I was just a kid who wanted to make everyone happy, live up to their expectations. When someone screamed at me and called me names, I knew that was wrong, I had been told that. You don’t call people names. So I was hurt, but I knew I was in the right. That’s how I managed it. But the emotional abuse, you don’t see it, you don’t know it’s happening, you start thinking you are the problem, you start hating yourself and it messes you up. Just because you don’t “see” emotional abuse as clearly as verbal abuse doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt just as much, that it can’t mess you up, because it does. It broke me. More than any words ever could. Now I’m not saying it’s worse than verbal abuse, it was for me, personally, worse. Everyone is different, everyone struggles with different problems. I suffered from seperation anxiety due to my paren’t divorce, I was already prone to wanting to please people and emotional abuse plays with that, it plays with your feelings, it makes you feel like you are the problem. So for me personally it was horrible. For another person the verbal abuse can break them. But that’s not the question, it doesn’t matter which kind of abuse you go through, what matters is that you were hurt, someone hurt you and it’s not your fault and no one, no one is allowed to tell you how to feel about it, how to deal with it. No one should say “so and so is dealing better with it”, you don’t know shit. You don’t know what’s going on in someone’s life, you don’t know what demons might hunt them, you know nothing. It’s not your right to judge other people’s feelings, to make a competition out of fucking child abuse! You don’t like Maddie, you don’t like Chloe, I don’t fucking care, but don’t you dare make a competition out of something which was abuse and which hurt them. It only shows you don’t really care about any of them because using a dark chapter of someone’s life for your own sick argument is the worst! You also only saw one side to it on reality TV, you don’t know what happened behind closed doors, you don’t know anything. Also yes, they will probably not see what you wrote, but others do. Othes who have experienced something similar and I can tell you for sure that I was hurt. Because a lot of stuff which happened to Maddie, happened to me and I personally did not deal well, I suffered and reading how she had it good because she was praised and put on a pedestal, it fucking hurts and I’m telling you right now, I did not want any of that, I hated it and it was just a little part in a much bigger game, the problem was far more complex, it always is and what you see is such a little bit of the real issue going on. Even in this way too long and very messy post (sorry about that!), I only told you one small part of what happend to me, a small glimpse, I left out the worst, I left out so much, I just took some things to paint a picture. You never know what’s going on in someone’s life, even if you think you might because a huge part of it was shown on TV and it’s wrong to judge them and their feelings. Maddie was only 8 when the show started, she didn’t have a mum fighting for her, defending her, she was on TV, cameras following, increasing the pressure already on her. I am honestly so impressed how she dealt with it and I am so happy that Sia is in her life and such a good influence. Telling her to only do what makes her happy and all that, I would have needed such a woman in my life, it makes such a difference. I feel for Maddie, I can imagine what she went through and it’s not as glorious as many of you believe. All the girls suffered, each differently because they are different persons and were treated differently and had to deal with different problems. It’s not anyone’s right to judge that, to compare it, to make a sick competition out of it. It just shows your disregard for any of their feelings and it’s sick and I’m sick of it and I won’t discuss this with you either, it’s just wrong. Neither of us know what goes on, really goes on in their lifes and how they feel. I don’t know what Maddie felt, I can only imagine it because similar things happened to me, but I don’t know. And that’s all, have a good day. 

[hangezoeenthusiast]

Saying I love you through actions

multiple x gn!reader

word count: 984

warnings: the egg, cursing, yelling, getting kinda hurt in wilbur's, food in sapnap's and dream's, monster addiction (obviously karl)

note: this is probably one of my favorite ones, the minors are platonic

C!Technoblade

shares his armor and potions

think of it as a offering

when you accept it, his piglin side goes brrrr

phil and you, possibly ranboo, are the only people he will give stuff to, because the other brats don't deserve it

if you give him your armor and potions, he is forever in your debt

Sapnap

shares his food with you

you and him totally drive at 3 am to subway or mcdonalds

when you drive back to the house, you kick up your feet on the dashboard, lean back in your seat, and take a sip from sapnap's drink

he was pissed, you had your own drink, why would you drink his?

he didn't do anything, but THEN you stole his fries

that was the last straw

then he bursted out on you

"YOU HAVE YOUR OWN FRIES, EAT THEM." and then you replied, "but babyyyyy."

you were puppy dog pouting, that was sapnap's weakness. he turned back to the road, and said, "ok, just take them, obviously you're still going to eat them."

then you went over the cupholder, and hugged him really tight

Dreamwastaken

let’s you take over his almost never daily stream

you’ll walk into his streaming place, and hold some food for him, because i just have a feeling he hasn’t ate in a while

so while he’s eating, you take off his headset, move the mic towards your mouth, and start talking to chat

and while you’re just asking how their day has been, dream is just sitting on the chair with his fork in the air, plate in his hand, and mouth stuffed to the brim

he’s just looking at you with a lovey dovey look in his gaze, it’s really cute, and very homey

Georgenotfound

gives you his blanket when it’s cold

it's honking freezing in his house

so naturally, being the good gogy he is, he shares it with you

you don't return the favor though, you pratically want him to get hypothermia

but you give it to him reluctantly :(

he stops sharing the blanket with you, but then you start fake crying, and he automatically gives it to you

Karl Jacobs

gives you almost every single monster he has

this boi is really addicted to monster

so he has to share it with you 😉

eventually, you're hooked, sometimes you even get a whole box of monster to share with him

it goes out by a week, or maybe less

after both of you are done, you slam the bottle on your foreheads

it's painful, but remember, pain is temporary, swag is forever 😉😩😜🤪😎🤓😏😫🤬😡😳🥵🥶😱🤔😬😵‍💫🥱😪😈🤠🤑👺👹☠️😼

(sorry for the spam of emojis)

Quackity

gives you his beanie

you know he doesn't like to show his hair on streams

and we think he's bald

so when you pop up behind him with your hair crazy, he gets one of his spare beanies, grabs your shirt to get closer to him, and places it on your head

and it's probably the LAFD one, since he wears his puma one more frequently

and bestie, YOU LOOKED GOOD

and chat was spamming, Y/NCHAMP

C!Punz

gives you his jewelry

he's REALLY rich, and will give you anything

but when you need to go out to a party or something like that, he just gives you his jewelry

need a ring, don't worry, take 5 rings for one hand

need a necklace, oh don't cry about it, let me get you a diamond one

you get what i'm putting down?

but when he sees you with it, his heart goes boing boing

C!Badboyhalo

let’s you decorate the egg

he never lets anyone touch the egg in anyway unless they wanted to join

the egg doesn't have an affect on you, he should kill you, but the egg doesn't mind you, and ordered him to not unalive you

but get this, when it's a special holiday, you actually decorate the egg

if it was christmas, you would put presents under it, and put tinsel EVERYWHERE

halloween would be spooky stuff, like jack-o-lanterns, skulls, and even multiple buckets of candy

the egg really likes it, and even bbh likes it, even though he's still iffy about you

Wilbur Soot

helps you play the guitar

he definitely tries to make you play internet ruined me, i'm in love with an e-girl, or your new boyfriend

and if the off chance he will try to make you play jubilee line, you do it so well

but before you practically mastered the art of the guitar, you used to mess up a lot

wilbur seriously had to take the guitar away from you for a week or more because you started to accidentally hurt your fingertips

Platonic!Ranboo

let’s you play with his gloves

when he’s streaming, without his facecam, you just randomly kick down the door, anime style, and sit next to him

and then when you get bored, you randomly fidget with his gloves

you obviously won’t take it off since he might be uncomfortable with it, but you’ll take the bottom of it, and just roll the material through your fingers

he just goes really soft

Platonic!Tommyinnit

he gives you his coke

honestly, when tommy gives you his coca cola, that just signifies your friendship more

it’s just really pog :]

he will only give you that, not wilbur, tubbo, or even philza

when he gives you it in front of chat, they just spam

“BESTIES FOR LIVERS” “I WANT MY FRIEND TO SHARE STUFF WITH ME”

Platonic!Tubbo

let’s you hold benson

it is the highest honor

he only lets his closest friends touch benson, and if you try to damage him at all, you're done for

but luckily, you don't

he gladly gives you benson, and you hold him very carefully

since he trusts you with benson, he gives you another benson, but obviously, you name it differently

[thorn-amidst-roses]

Oh and (I’m so sorry, after this I will stop spamming your dashboards for like, at least an hour I swear) I figured out what to do about the torn up magazine.

I ended up pulling the staples and just carefully separating out the Berserk pages (and the other sides of the folds, which aren’t relevant but I didn’t want to have to figure out how to rebind truly loose pages since the magazine was bound all as one signature instead of multiple).

This made the overall size more manageable (this is a hulkbeast of a magazine, part of why the cover fell off) and separated out all the uhhhhh...content I don’t much care about (so much hentai lmao).

Just have to decide whether I want to find a stapler to put the small section back together, or thread-bind it.

I might just nicely threadbind it and put my bookbinding “skills” to good use. Maybe give it an inner leaf and hardcover or something just to keep it a bit protected.

I’m leaving my second issue “as-is”, so I don’t feel all that bad about like...going all mad scientist on the one that got messed up in shipping. Also bearing in mind that at the end of the day this is basically like...manga Playboy and the only reason I’m treating it like the freaking Holy Grail is because it has potentially the last chapter of a series I follow.

[vespertine-legacy]

Time for playlist spam! Here’s a playlist I built for Zuvi. Track list with pertinent lyrics and some explanations under the cut. The formatting will almost certainly get broken on mobile, so apologies in advance.

Two Points for Honesty - Guster [just a little about Zuvi in general; she grew up kind of thinking that she was a waste and not good enough and that nobody did/would care about her]

If that's all that you will be Then you'll be a waste of time You've dreamed a thousand dreams None seem to stick in your mind Two points for honesty It must make you sad to know that Nobody cares at all

Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap [how Zuvi falls in love, a little bit recklessly, but deeply, wholly, with more care than it looks like from the outside]

Sweet disposition Never too soon Oh, reckless abandon Like no one's watching you

Mess is Mine - Vance Joy [falling in love, kind of in general, but specifically with Risha]

You know you gave me all the time Oh, did I give enough of mine? Hold on, darling This body is yours, This body is yours and mine Well hold on, my darling This mess was yours, Now your mess is mine

Bloodstream - Stateless [Zuvi & Lana; they really did not mean to get involved with each other, and it ends up not really being a good thing for either of them and they kind of know it, but sometimes it’s hard to say no to something that feels good, you know?]

And the silence surrounds you And hunts you I think I might've inhaled you I could feel you behind my eyes You’ve gotten into my bloodstream I could feel you floating in me

The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most - Dashboard Confessional [Zuvi hates Odessen, she doesn’t want to lead the Alliance, her crew and her lovers aren’t here, and Lana’s been withholding information from her but she knows why; my inner emo teenager is showing and I don’t give a shit]

And you can't fake it hard enough to please everyone Or anyone at all...or anyone at all And the grave that you refuse to leave The refuge that you've built to flee, The places that you've come to fear the most

Trembling Hands - The Temper Trap [getting the news that they might have found her old crew--maybe it will help her to have them back, or maybe it’s too late for them all]

So throw me a line Somebody out there help me I'm on my own Throw me a line Afraid that I have come here To win you again With trembling hands Hear me now make me whole

I Won’t Fight It - Andrew Belle [reuniting with Corso and Risha, scared that it won’t be the same (scared that it will be the same)]

Where your body is I'll be brave I walk to it If there's a crowd waiting for me there I'll break through it, but I won't fight it, I won't fight it

You’re Somebody Else - flora cash [Akaavi and Corso to Zuvi, probably starting around the time she kills Senya, potentially Akaavi to Zuvi even earlier, because Akaavi is a lot more perceptive than Corso]

Well you look like yourself But you're somebody else Only it ain't on the surface Well you talk like yourself No, I hear someone else though Now you're making me nervous

Simple Pleasures - Jake Bugg [Zuvi & Theron; a warning]

And maybe it's all that you've done wrong So just bite your silver tongue That you lied with, lied to yourself

It’s Too Much - Moose Blood [fuck. This is how Akaavi leaves Zuvi]

And I don't think I've got this in me And I don't feel the way you do It's been a while now and it kills me to say that It's just too much

Tell Me Why - Nine Pound Shadow [double fuck. Corso & Zuvi breaking up]

And after all this hurt I still love you so And you don't know what this is like There must have been something that you could say Everyone who tried to love you You pushed them all away

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star [Risha about Zuvi; and Risha still loves her no matter what]

I think it’s strange you never knew

[yeah, because you don’t just come out and say it, asshole]

Hanging On - Active Child [fuck, the third. This is Zuvi and Lana’s break up; Lana has always wanted something different than what Zuvi can give her, and I’m terrible for doing this to them, but I’m a slut for angst and suffering]

Touch me and then turn away Put your hands into the flame Tell me if you feel this pain 'cause I don't want to be your ball and chain

Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Stars [Zuvi is having some bad days, yo; but she brought this upon herself and she needs to learn to face actual consequences]

Live through this, and you won't look back There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave You were what I wanted I gave what I gave I'm not sorry I met you I'm not sorry it's over I'm not sorry there's nothing to save

Better Life - Paper Route [Accepting, moving on]

All this fire in my veins From a heart that's trapped in my ribcage Burning through my fingertips Burning everything I kiss | And what is done is done Piece together what's been broken Can you ever give up someone A better life, a better life is waiting

Our Hearts Are Wrong - Jessica Lea Mayfield [Zuvi & @rainofaugustsith ‘s Ror; Meeting Ror? First mission with Ror? Realizing she’s falling for Ror? Deciding darkness is worth it as long as she has Risha and Ror?]

You're intimidating as all hell But I ain't scared of you I know how you work I am just like you No matter what you say Our hearts are wrong

The Night Starts Here - Stars [Post Onslaught fuckery, but I’m not saying much more]

The night starts here, the night starts here Forget your name, forget your fear You drop a coin into the sea And shout out please come back to me You name your child after your fear And tell them I have brought you here

[emberquill]

So long, and thanks for all the fish

A rant. About the thing we’re all ranting about.

So by now everyone probably knows about what’s happening on December 17th. Mostly because you can see the official notice at the top of your Dashboard now if you missed everything else that was going on. As much as I want to be angry about it, I’m mostly just resigned. I’ve seen it happen before and I’ll probably see it happen again to other sites. First, the machine-banning with an intolerably high rate of false positives, then new community guidelines that are so frustratingly vague that you cannot even determine whether your content is violating them or not, anger, vitriol, and in the end, a much less vibrant and unique community that no longer holds my interest. No apologies from the owners, no attempts at remediation at all.

I’ve... always had issues with the community of tumblr and how its users often fail to be as inclusive as they claim they are, but I still met some great friends on this platform, connected with content creators on a more personal level than I ever would have anticipated, and stumbled across a lot of really cool things, from art to photography to stories to funny anecdotes to new shows/movies/books/etc... I’ve discovered entire communities of people who share my interests. I’ve stumbled into discovering more about myself too. I stumbled across a webcomic with nonbinary characters and that is how I determined myself to be genderfluid. I may have stumbled across a few new fetishes too, but nobody’s perfect.

Meanwhile, people have been complaining for years about the porn spamming bots, the hate speech, the downright illegal content such as CP, and yet they did nothing. Instead they waited until Apple finally took notice, realized that they had allowed the mess to grow far beyond their ability to control, and now they’re taking drastic measures that could have been avoided if they’d actually paid any attention to their user base.

The saddest thing is, this change means that a lot of the content that shaped my perception of myself is no longer allowed on this platform. That webcomic which taught me about genderfluidity might not be allowed due to its suggestive themes. The personal anecdotes that allowed me to come to terms with my bisexuality might be blocked due to being too “adult” for this site. The creators whose content I enjoyed might find greener pastures, even if none of their work violates the new community guidelines at all.

I fall into that last group of people, myself. I know I rarely post any more (other than occasional reblogs), my writing has basically stalled out for years, and I probably have few, if any, followers paying attention to me at all, but I still feel like I need to make my displeasure known to the people who operate this site, not to mention the fact that their process for banning still has too many false positives based on what I’ve been hearing. I don’t want to risk suddenly losing everything because I used the wrong swear word or reblogged the wrong post. So on the same day their new community guidelines go into place, I’m leaving and deleting every post prior except this one, leaving it as a final “farewell” of sorts.

I’m backing everything up first, of course. I’m not that vindictive. 98% of my work is posted elsewhere (on FanFiction.Net or AO3), and the remainder is just small drabbles and one-off scenes that will undoubtedly find their way over to AO3 soon.

I want to reiterate that I’m not leaving because my own content will be banned, or at least I don’t think I have any bannable content here. I’m leaving because I don’t think where things are going, I vehemently disagree with the decision to ban NSFW content, and I refuse to support such a decision when it is made with such short notice and with no recourse or debate.

I’m also tired and running on almost no sleep right now so I’m sorry if this stream of consciousness sounds like the ramblings of a sleep-deprived person, because they very much are exactly that.

EDIT: I ended up not deleting prior posts but I’m definitely way less active now (almost to the point of being completely inactive). I decided that deleting stuff was kind of a knee-jerk reaction, especially since I don’t want to start erasing my stuff from the internet. I don’t have a personal blog outside of tumblr so I don’t have anywhere to repost any of this. If I ever do move fully to another platform, I’ll reconsider it.

[moonraccoon-exe]

(1) Hi, you fluffiest raccoon on planet earth! *snuggles* So Zelda is your favorite game? I haven‘t played a single one of them sadly but my big brother lets me play Breath of the Wild soon on his switch because it really really interests me. I always saw Link in other Games like Smash Bros and all the stuff I saw around the internet made me curious. So I will definitely play Breath of the Wild soon. And about the Witcher. Well, it wouldn‘t hurt if you played the first two games first,

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASPS

PERIDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDDDDDDD

*TACKLES AND SNUGGLES*

PERIDOT, MY DEAR FRIEND, IT U!! ZOMG HI HELLO!!! :3

Edit: Ahahahahha, either Tumblr messed up with new settings and buttons or this extension that I added to have the old blue back but added more buttons too and I accidentally posted before answering lol

You come back after the log off protest so you can read it no worries, Peridot!! Because I may finish this but rather late for you so you go to bed, aye? Talk to you in a week! :3

(this may look like a full answer but it’s just in process buddy. Imma tell you above the keep reading when it’s finished. Gods, sorry for wrong posting hahaha!!)

PERIDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

*KEEPS SNUGGLING*

You most WONDERFUL MUFFIN, I’m happy to get to be answering to you again!! How have you been? I hope you’ve been doing better regarding that other issue. It’s not easy or light so you take your time recovering and making your peace with it, aye buddy? I’m still sending you my good vibes and wishes, standing with you even if only from far away. You can do it, buddy. Take your time. *pets you*

And yes, Zelda must be my fave! Sometimes I feel shy saying it because there’s always the idiot that says that if you haven’t played all the games in the franchise you’re not a fan and that’s stupid to me lol. But yeh, I really love all the Zelda universe aksljdfadlkjg :3

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASPS

YOU GET TO PLAY BREATH OF THE WILD?!?!!?

I WOULD INSERT THE GIF OF THE HYSTERICAL BIRD SCREECHING BUT KEEP READING DOESN’T WORK IN MOBILE AND I DON’T WANT TO SPAM OTHER’S DASHBOARDS EVEN MORE I JUST KALSDJ FLKDGJ ALKDJA

*FREAKS OUT* *FLIPS THE DESK* *FLIPS THE WHOLE GALAXY*

*SHRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK*

YOUR BRO HAS A SWITCH AND HE HAS BREATH OF THE WILD AND YOU GET TO PLAY IT!?!?!? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PERIDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT LKASJDFKLGD KLJADJ ADLKGJA KLGJEOIJ DLKGADKLG ADJLKJAF

*DIES AND ASCENDS TO THE HEAVENS*

OH MY GOD PERIDOT, BREATH OF THE WILD IS LIKE A REVOLUTIONARY ZELDA, I HAVEN’T GOTTEN TO PLAY IT BECAUSE THE SWITCH IS SO EXPENSIVE OVER HERE AND MY FAM’S NOT IN CONDITIONS TO GET ONE AND EVER SINCE BOTW HAS BEEN OUT I’VE BEEN A WHINY SQUEAKY MESS BECAUSE HOLY SHIT IT LOOKS FANTASTIC, IT LOOK NUTS, IT LOOKS OTHERWORLD AND IT’S APPARENTLY GOING TO HISTORY AS ONE OF TH EBEST ZELDA (either that or I personally just got too excited lol) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

YOU GET TO PLAY BOTW AKSLDJFKLADJGKDALJG AZOMYGUFKCINGGOD PERIDOT ENJOY IT WHOLEHEARTEDLY AND IMMENSELY!!!!!!!!!!! ZOMG ZOMG I’M SO EXCITED AND HYPED AND OH MY GAWD YOU GET TO PLAY BOTW KALSJDF GDKLDAJKADLGJ KLA DKLDGJDAG KLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I HOPE YOU GET TO PLAY IT SOON AND THAT YOU HAVE A BLAST AND A PHENOMENAL AND THE MOST FANTASTIC TIME PLAYING IT, PERIDOT, BUDDY!!!!!!!!!!

Link is one of my absolute FAVES and babies and I protecc. I think that you’ll like him and the games. Did you know his name is Link because when they were planning the first games, the creator wanted you to see yourself reflected in the character? So that’s why he has no voice (other than his yelps and yells) and is mostly named ‘Link’, because he’s supposed to be a link between the player and the game, it’s supposed to be someone you channel yourself into even if just slightly. Also explains a bit of his physical looks; they say they wanted Link to look like a girl with boy attributes or like a boy with feminine attributes so anyone could feel related to him :3

BUT ENOUGH OF MY RANT, it’s just my love for this boy and everything of the Zelda universe is MY LOVE KLASDJKLADGJ 

Ooooooh, I see what you mean with the whole thing about the Witcher and whether I need to play the first 2 first. I’m catching that it’s sorta like Dragon Age? Like, there’s a kaload of books and info and the other 2 games that come first, but I’m not missing anything like...I can make sense to it. Still, however, it would be more...rich if I could play the first 2 games. I’d understand the story and the lore better, I’d have a better comprehension of the world and the history, and I’d know characters better and deeper.

Still, playing straight from the 3rd game is fine. I’m just missing things in that sort of way but it’s understandable and fine. That’s how I catch it, at least! :)

Well, if that’s the case, I may give a thought to getting the Witcher 3 one day. I do have heard it’s like a classic or a very dear game to many, many people, so I sure should try it out. Thanks for filling me in on whether it was fine to play the third alone or not!! Imma search for the books, as well. Reading is quite a passion for me and if I can complement reading with gaming...gawds, that sounds like HEAVEN

GASPS

I didn’t know Geralt had a daughter!!!!!!!! :O THAT MAKES THE STORY SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SO SO SO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH MORE INTERESTING AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

One of the many reasons I’m so intimate with XV is that it’s got a deep and intimate deal with father-son subjects, which makes me sort of weak. And knowing this about the Witcher makes it even more interesting!! Because it sounds like such a complex character with a complex purpose. One looks at him and it’s easy to think that he’s just a tough guy that, I don’t know, is a mercenary and looks for prizes and fame or something, or like he’s defending his dead wife’s memory and taking revenge, something savage and brutal like a Tough Guy, you know?

But the fact that he’s actually looking for his daughter? FUCK, THIS FUCKS ME UP INT HE BEST WAY POSSIBLE *SHRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK*

I’m SO in love with storyes that don’t revolve around romance. Like, side romance is FANTASTIC, but when it’s like....the center itself, the core? BORING. But family or friend bonds? Siblings? F A T H E R  A N D  D A U G H T E R???????

SHIT FAM SIGN ME IN WHY THE HELL AM I NOT PLAYING THIS GAME RIGHT NOW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AKLJSFGK DL JADKLGJDAKLGAJDH ADKLGJALKHJ FAHKLFAJLKDF ADKLGHJ ADHLKA

*CRIES*

PERFECT. BRILLIANT. There’s no better character arc/construnction than that of a tough guy fighting for the reasons that can come off as “not rough”. Looking for a daughter is SAVAGE AND BRUTAL AF but it’s not that common ya know. It’s usually revenge,t he love of his life, or something like that. But a tough guy looking for his baby girl? YAS. FAHK. I NEED I NEED I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

*THROWS A TANTRUM AND DOES GRABBY HANDS*

Hahaha, don’t worry about ranting to me about the game!! I understand your joy and excitement, and it’s okay to keep talking about it. It DOES sound like a PHENOMENAL game so of course you’d love to talk more and more about it!! :D

[ersatzangel]

as someone who's dashboard can get busy and doesn't always check tumblr and so misses (a lot of) things, self-reblogs are awesome. I follow enough blogs that your reblogs do not in any way look like spamming and they actually help remind me to read your fic or let me know I missed a fic. please run your blog how you want, but know that if you do self-reblog, you have at least one follower who likes that you do

Hi, anon, that's very encouraging thank you! I'm so glad that I'm not annoying at least one person :D

Though, tbh, it' was more about reblogging my art! (Although also my fic) And was also a little to save my own feelings because I rarely get extra notes when I do a self reblog (and that's fine!!! I really truly don't want to guilt or pressure anyone into liking/reblogging my posts) and then I get very embarrassed and spiral into all sorts of negative feelings (which I'd hoped wouldn't happen with this blog/fandom but I'm just a mess of insecurities* no matter the fandom lol)

*It's more of a social thing but I'm already ruining your nice ask

But, yeah, thank you, I'm sorry for kinda ruining your nice intentions but I really appreciate you taking the time to encourage me <333

(Context: I apologised for reblogging myself too much but I guess I deleted the post because I can't find it now but I have no memory of deleting it lol)

[moonagedaydreamohyeah]

Guys sorry, I’m working through my likes, reblogging most of them with tags to put that mess into some kind of system:):) I’m trying to put it in a queue but I forget sometimes and just press the reblog button hehe.. I know I might be spamming your dashboard a bit so sry about that🙃

[denialanderror]

Okay so this is probably going to be the most sincere post I’ve ever made (and quite possibly the last sincere post I ever make). It’s been one hell of a year but I’ve gotten to know a bunch of you, be it your posts on my dash making me laugh or having conversations about god knows what at 1am. I think it’s safe to say tumblr has taken over a huge chunk of my life (sadder words have never been said) so here’s to all of you bozos.

@imhereforbvcky​ I had to start with you. We’ve been talking for over a year now and still you put up with my shitty humour and pestering snapchats. God, you take the piss sometimes though. But I’m glad you dish out what you receive, I don’t know if we’d still be talking constantly if you didn’t. Except also fuck you because we’ve now gotten to the point where I’ll see something (ahem cereal) on Amazon and I can’t help but send it to your door. It’s an issue. But on a more serious note, 2017 has fucking kicked my ass and I think I can safely say that it would have been far far worse if I didn’t have you to rant to and support me through it all. You’re a fucking gem, Mee. And I sincerely hope 2018 is a little kinder on the both of us.

@rotisserierogers Oh kumi, you give hard ons in my heart (I’m still laughing at organ boners). I think it’s safe to say that whenever I need to Yell™ I head to you. You’re somehow the both aggressive and motivational and it’s incredible. You were one of the Big Blogs I took my head out of my ass to speak to and I haven’t looked back since. You’ve ruined my sense of humour (who the fuck am I kidding though it never made any sense) and it’s been a wild fucking ride but thank fuck for you and your shit ass sense in food (rasmalai ftw). But hoe. Please. For the safety of everyone around you. Stay away from the kitchen. Come to my house for gods sake and let me feed you just... stay away from the stove. We’ll bring our son. It’ll be great. 

@whothehellisbella​ Okay you’re a talented piece of shit and I hate you for it. But honestly, thank you for pushing me to be Extra™ whenever I can and for letting me yell about theatre! You’re a sweet little fuck but a sassy fuck and I’m so glad I can call you all the curses under the sun and you’ll just be like “no u, hoe” without batting an eye. It’s great. I think you were one of the first people I spoke to? Idk i’m getting old, either way you’re an absolute doll, you are genuinely supportive and such a kind soul and I wanna thank you for putting up with me. But also pls teach me your selfie ways i stfg I have no idea how to un-potato myself. 

@poealsobucky Oh boy. Michelle. What a fucking ride. I’m still not over how awkward my first message to you was, the fact that you still spoke to me after that mess is beyond me (fuck you Mee). But you’re one of the nicest, most understanding people I’ve met on this hellsite. You understand my insane ramblings and the motive behind my bitchy moods and you deserve so much more. I wanna thank you for letting me feel safe to message you about literally anything and everything without fear of being judged. We didn’t speak until later in the year but I adore you and your wise-beyond-your-years advice. Now go get yo’self a glass of wine, you deserve it.

@mynameisnoelle We started speaking after Michelle showed me your username and I thought “that’s so fucking smart! I love it!” Too bad you’re a dumbass irl. Okay but no, I fucking love you, Noelia. You’re literally just as insane as me and it’s magical. Thank you for letting me spam you with whatever is taking over my life on any given day and for screaming along with me about things (babies and dogs, mostly). And I swear to god girl, if I ever get to Spain, we are meeting up. 

@buckys-fossil Sam! Sweet, gorgeous Sam. First of, thank you for the lipstick good god it changed my life. And thank you for being just as excitable as me about the dumbest shit (although I’m still going to force you to read Harry Potter) and encouraging my insanity. Your videos of your dog always make my day a little brighter and I’m not even going to deny stalking your instagram, you’re hot af. I love you, peanut. 

@crappy-camel @theassetseyeliner @barnescrazy Ah yes. The Children™. You guys will send me to an early grave, I swear. Macy you’re literally insane, I am worried about your health tbh but you’re also a huge fucking softie and I wish you the best. Erin any time I see your photos I can’t help but think “how the fuck is this girl so trendy? I looked like trash when I was her age” because oh boy was that a look. Good old suppressed emo teens. And Vena you Canadian blessing. You’re freaking gorgeous but fuck you and your Twizzlers, eh? Ngl though I’m considering marrying you for that nationality ya dig?

@valhalla-ally Ally! I fucking love ya! I don’t remember how we started speaking but holy fuck, you quite literally changed my life (woo uni) and I never really thanked you for that. You’re such a hard worker and quite honestly, watching your reactions to that Loki fic was one of the highlights of my year. You’re such a kind-hearted person and you go out of your way to make sure I’m okay and help i any way you can. I love you, woman, you deserve so much more recognition. 

@meleedamage We haven’t talked much in terms of messages and shit but holy fuck, your posts have made me inappropriately laugh in public too many times. Any time I see you reblogging something from me, I prepare myself because I know it’ll be absurd, filthy and punny and I will probably have to stifle a laugh. You’ve made my dash immensely better and I wanted to thank you for making me laugh.. and yelling at me to reblog my drawing more lmao.

@soldatbarnes I’ve been such a shitty mutual when it comes to fics this year and I’m sorry but I’ll have you know, I have pretty much all of your fics saved on my tbr list because you’re insanely talented. And fucking gorgeous! I love seeing you on my dashboard and when we’ve spoken, you’ve always been such a sweetheart. Thank you for letting me ramble and forgiving me for being such a shitty reader. 

There are so many more people who’ve made my time on tumblr that much better but my laptop is about to die and I can only handle so much softness. This is unnatural. I feel weird. But to everyone I’ve spoken to this year or has made me laugh when scrolling, thank you. You make tumblr what it is and I probably would have gotten bored and left long ago if it wasn’t for you guys.

[tbhstudying]

hey seo sorry i'm a little late on the drama stuff but,,, i just wanted to put it out there that seo is genuinely such a sweet & nice person!!!!! tbh she's been nothing but nice to me tho she probably has like 10x my followers (@ anon saying seo doesn't care about her followers) (⑅˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈ ) also (if sth looks exactly like urs) who wouldn't be annoyed if they don't receive credit? we actually put in effort into our content ya know ;-; love u seo hopefully things get better for u soon i love u!!!

thank you so much, chantel ;; you’re too kind to me and i love and appreciate you very very much

an anon said:sending some positivity and love your way! you are great and i enjoy all your content and i admire how well youve handled all of this (at least on the outside - not snapping and throwing around curse words and such). i've been called a 12-year-old before online because i refused to get angry at people being mean :D anyway love you!

thank you so much! mmmm i don’t want to shout and swear at another person when logically explaining my point seems much kinder and more efficient, you know? thank you very much!

an anon said: seo i just wanted to say that youre honestly so fricking sweet and cute and pure and inspire so many people including me i mean part of the reason my life is finally getting more organized and just genuinely way better is bc of u and i truly can not comprehend how these people are calling you names :(((( i love u u brilliant human being!!! pls dont let this stuff get to ya :((((

asdfghjkl i’m so glad that i managed to help in some way! thank you for your support :”) i’m trying not to let this get to me too much ehehe ;u;

@chocopuffeater said:HI HI HI I LOVE YOU! I just saw the posts about the depressing anon messages and I think you're so strong for responding the way you did. seo amazing! ^_^

thank you so much, sissi!! i really appreciate it aaaaaaa

an anon said:the fact that the hate anons are ANONS and unwilling to actually say something to your face just proves how immature they are, ngl. seo, i'm sorry you've gotten caught up in this mess with studyflorals... if nobody has anything nice to say, then they shouldn't say it. i hope you have a lovely day :)

yeah, i’m tempted to turn off anon, but at the same time, i don’t want to prevent anybody from asking the questions that they need ;; some ppl have told me that they get anxious when they’re not on anon and i don’t want to make it difficult for them to reach out to me and ask a question if they need to.anyhow thank you very much and i hope you have a brilliant day too!

an anon said:I just read those anon messages about your post quality and follower count etc and just wanted to say that you have such a great mindset and inspire me with your posts and videos! And tbh not everything you make is interesting/appeals to me but i still appreciate the quality and all the work you put into it. There's no reason to attack you like that, if you don't like sth you don't like it. Don't let them get to you and have a great week!

aaaa thank you for continuing to stick with me ;; yeah, not everything i make will appeal to everyone, but i’m glad that i managed to help with at least some of my content

an anon said:reminder: please don't let ignorant people drag you down! you're wonderful!

reminder: you’re wonderful as well! thank you, anon :”) i hope you have a fantastic day!

[tweetadvise]

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Tumblr

Quora

StumbleUpon

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Insider Pages

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Hotfrog

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BizJournals

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Respond to positive comments. If a customer is taking time out of their day to applaud your business, thank them for their patronage. If they repetitively wax poetic regarding their excellent encounter, offer them a promo code. This is just how brand ambassadors are built.

Crisis management

Answering concerns as well as thanking consumers for their patronage is very easy, however exactly what takes place when someone pounds your business? Whether it's true or otherwise, once it's published, there are a host of problems you need to think about:

Is this remark visiting hurt my business's reputation?

How can I help this customer?

If the issue is true, just what could I do to avoid this from taking place again?

Never delete negative comments (unless these are evident spam remarks)

Be timely

53% of Twitter users expect to hear back from the firm they're interacting with within an hour. That does not provide you a lot of time to plan a feedback, so consider producing an activity prepare for replying to client inquiries.

Create an action plan

You have to develop a technique for dealing with negativity. Considering that customers will be counting down the minutes until your reaction, make the effort to toenail down your method currently so you have the ability to nip problems in the bud as they happen.

Own up

If you did something wrong, acknowledge it and also say sorry. Radio silence - or even worse, rejection - will estrange customers and often drags the issue on much longer compared to if it was attended to head on.

Don't feed the trolls

Sometimes, people are simply suggest and also there's no other way to make them pleased. If you attempt to correct a scenario with a customer as well as they are rude, despiteful, or proceed flaming your business, it's time to move on.

At the very least, request that they email or call you to proceed the conversation so that it's not openly plastered throughout your social accounts.

Learn from other companies

Unsurprisingly, social media dilemmas are taken care of wrongly all the time. Checking out situation researches about companies that have actually messed up or efficiently dealt with a social calamity can assist you develop your personal strategy.

Social Advertising

Most socials media offer some form of paid promo or advertising features to assist obtain a brand name's social media sites account or blog posts in front of more eyes. While companies can count on natural reach and word-of-month for increased exposure, paid promo could guarantee wide reach and assistance drive more traffic as well as leads in a measurable way.

Facebook Ads

Facebook ads are the most typical and prolific social media sites ads due to their ease of use, hyper-targeting functionalities, as well as cost. They are becoming a lot more prominent as Facebook gradually drives brand name updates from individuals' Information Feeds in attempts to reveal just what it regards a lot more pertinent content.

Facebook's self-service ad platform supplies a range of items that can aid:

increase Facebook page likes

attract much more suches as, comments, and also shares on your posts

drive traffic to your website

promote mobile app downloads

track conversions made on your website as a result of social advertising

Ads can be targeted extensively to a particular geographical area or sector, in addition to even more granulated demographics consisting of particular interests, pastimes, as well as online acquisition behaviors. Businesses could additionally develop a Personalized Target market using telephone number or e-mail addresses in order to help get to consumers you currently know.

Twitter Ads

Twitter has a likewise easy-to-navigate self-service platform as well as provides a robust analytics area to measure the effectiveness of ads.

Twitter's item offerings can help both businesses as well as people:

reach a lot more users and also drive conversions

send much more customers to your website with unique call-to-actions

get customers to download and install a mobile app

collect emails from people that express interest

gain more Twitter followers

Much like Facebook, targeting on Twitter ads is very accurate. Customers could be targeted by their geographic place and also passions as well as by similar accounts that they follow.

LinkedIn Ads

LinkedIn's self-service advertisements are fairly limited, with the more robust products provided only to marketing experts with a sales representative at the firm. No matter, businesses can utilize the self-serve advertisement to put content - as well as existing blog posts - in front of the ideal audiences.

Because LinkedIn accommodates experts, there are a range of convenient targeting options including job title, industry, and also company size.

Recommended Tools

We love tools below at Online marketing Ninjas, and we would certainly be remiss not to discuss several of our preferred social media tools.

Promotion

Viral Content Buzz

Measurement and Insights

Facebook Insights

FollowerWonk

Klout

Simply Measured

SumAll

Topsy

TweetReach

Tweriod

Read further: 6 Social Media Analytics Companies To Keep An Eye On

Monitoring

HootSuite

Sprout Social

Buffer

TweetDeck

Trackur

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Relationship Building

BuzzStream

BuzzSumo

Commun.it

ManageFlitter

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Hi, moonraccoon! I absolutely love your blog, really, it's one of the best things I have ever found on Tumblr! I always see a lot of bad stuff going on around here, so it's really good to see a place with so much good energy and kind people. And of course, I love everything that you write. l wish you a good and speedy recovery from your surgery! Best wishes for you, kind raccoon. ^^

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HEEEEEEELLOOOOOOOOOO THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!!!! :DDDD

IT’SEXCITINGTOBETALKINGTOYOU IT’S ALL A PLEASURE BUT IT’S ALL MINE HELLO HOW ARE YOU DOING AH IT’S SO EXCITING HEWWO! (ノ*°▽°*)

You’re a constant on my activity, and I’ve always liked you for some reason! Changed your username relatively “recently” didn’t you? Hewwo, it’s such a pleasure to finally be talking to you!!!!! Thank you SO MUCH for dropping by, from the unexpected messages, yours was probably number one! I mean, I see you frequently but we’ve never actually spoken so it’s really exciting :)

Not to say it means a LOT to me! If you hadn’t talked before you’re probably shy, or maybe just didn’t want to, but either case just makes it so special you decided to drop by and say something; if it’s shynes, you stepped over it for this (and that’s such a HUGE act!), and if you just hadn’t talked before, you...well, stepped over it as well just for it, and that too is huge!

So thank you SOOOOOOOOO immensely MUCH! So dearly much for dropping by, it’s a joy and pleasure to read you! Thanks for the time to send such a kind, thoughtful, and nice message. It made me SO HAPPY, you have no idea, for sure! :D

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Oh. I got so carried away by just thanking you and being excited I almost forgot about what you were saying about my blog. A-ah...hnngh...I...now I’m in awe mode and don’t know what to say... ;w;

Oh. Say buddy, I hate to do this in your first ask, but I’ll ad a read more. Not that the reply ahead is huge or too personal, just so it stays short on other people’s dashboards, okay? Sorry, and thank you :’)

I was saying ;w;

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, y-YOU’RE JUST TOO KIND OHMYMOOGLES HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO REPLY TO SUCH A HEARTWARMING MESSAGE!?!(*ﾉ▽ﾉ)

Holy moogles, I’m, I’m, hnhgfnhgfnhf. I really don’t know how to reply. All this is just too kind and I don’t know how to reply at all :’3

Thank you SO much the such amazing words! I’m happy to see that you think so positively and in such a pretty way about my blog. It’s amazing, I- I hgnfdnhgd. I’m often thinking I may be sort of a bother because of how much I spam both reblogs and asks, so to know that you’re enjoying of it, it really does mean a lot to me! Thank you :’)

It’s so bad that you’re frequently seeing bad things going around in Tumblr. That sucks. :’(   As much as I wish that bad stuff didn’t happen, at least I’m happy that if it does then at least you find my blog to be part of the exception! :D I’ve never really meant to be a bother or a bad presence, so it makes me happy to know it has indeed been a good thing, even if just for some people. Thank you for letting me know all this

Though you know, it’s like I was telling someone yesterday; it’s actually all YOU people! :D

All that I do is answer what you tell or ask me, but all the positivity, it all starts with you all, and stays there because of you all. No one’s ever mean, and everyone jumps in with something pretty or/and happy or/and warm, and all I do is share it all. So it is, in the end, always you all. Even the quiet ones! It’s not necessary to jump in with a happy story or something; just not being mean, that speaks a lot already, and means a lot to me. Even the quiet ones put their part on it. :)

So it’s partly on you too! That this blog is what it is, I mean. What use would it be if no one was reading? None. So thank you immensely for following the blog and enjoying of it, as sad as it can get sometimes with personal matters from time to time. It’s because of and thanks to you all that racc’s lair is what it is :3

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THANK YOU SO VERY DEARLY MUCH ABOUT MY WRITING!!! HOLYMOOGLESABOVE, THANK YOU THANK YOU ♡

Like you hadn’t been kind enough you drop nice words about my writing too! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO, MAKE ME BLUSH TO UNCONSCIOUSNESS!?!? (*ﾉ▽ﾉ)

ADpsljfdpsfjdfposdjfklsgjlasjdkad, seriously though, thank you SOOOOO much! I put all my heart into everything I write, and lots of effort too! anD All my excitement and anD *RAPID BREATH* THANK YOU!!! I’ll keep it short because I’ve already rambled way too much and I don’t wanna bother you any longer but apdjfkjksjd really really really thank you so much aaah

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THANKYOUSOMUCH FOR THE WISHES ON RECOVERY THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU 3

What sort of wonderful creature are you!? YOU’RE MAKING ME SO HAPPY SENTENCE AFTER SENTENCE NON-STOP AND I’M A BLUSHING AND HAPPY MESS RIGHT HERE. See, this must be the reason you’ve been so quiet; when you say something, it’s so pretty and it feels so beautiful in the raccoonie’s heart that too much of it would overload it with love! (just kidding, you drop by anytime, as much as you wish, if you wish

Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO dearly and very much about the good wishes for my recovery! It means LOADS to me, really! This surgery was a very huge event in my life, so all the nice wishes about it and the recovery are so heartwarming and touching, truly. It means loads to me hnfgndhngg

So thank you immensely for the good wishes. Thank the stars, recovery is going amazingly well, and I coldn’t be any happier :’)

“Best wishes to you, kind raccoon” sounds like one of the purest and/or kindest ways someone’s  ever said bye to me and I don’t know why ;A;   It just feels so...sincere? And so pretty. Maybe I’m just being emotional aah ;A;

But thank you, really. You’re so amazingly kind and so incredibly good to me, I don’t know how to say thanks enough for this beautiful ask :’)

Thank you for dropping by, buddy. For the time put there. Thank you for the kind words about everything, for making me feel so amazingly happy, and for the good wishes. Thank you for being a raccoobo and making the blog a happy place!

Thank you for everything, buddy. Really. :’) 

All good wishes go back to you, and may the stars multiply them!

Thanks again, buddy. I hope you’re having a most incredible day or night!! :D